The imagination has the command over all its ideas, and can join, and mix, and vary them in all the ways possible.

It may conceive objects with all the circumstances of place and time.

It may set them, in a manner, before our eyes in their true colours, just as they might have existed.
But as it is impossible, that that faculty can ever, of itself, reach belief, it is evident, that belief consists not in the nature and order of our ideas, but in the manner of their conception, and in their feeling to the mind.

T confess, that it is impossible to explain perfectly this feeling or manner of conception.

We may make use of words, that express something near it.